Hi Neil.

27-Aug-03 17:08:00, Neil Heller wrote to William McBrine


 NH>> Does Linux use DLLs?

 WM>> Linux calls them "shared libraries", and their names
end in ".so"
 WM>> (plus a version number, usually); but the concept and function is
 WM>> the same.

 NH> If I were to build an application using shared libraries, what
 NH> sorts of version problems would I run into if the application were
 NH> to be distributed far and wide (presumably beyond my control)?

usually when they upgrade the library it remains binary compatible with the
old version especially for the most common functions.

 NH> I searched around my system for "*msvcrt*" and got 13 hits, 12 of
 NH> which were used by MS.  It seems to me that if this (these)
 NH> file(s) contained stdlib, it would be misnamed (unless it also
 NH> contained the code for stdio.

libc contains the stuff defined in stdlib.h, stdio.h, strings.h, math.h,
malloc.h, unistd.h etc...

looks like msvcrt is "MicroSoft Visual C RunTime" dunno what it contans -
run it through "strings"

 -=> Bye <=-

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